Streets of Rage 2 Classic Reviews

Every time you pause, you have to watch an ad, everytime you save you have to watch an ad, between levels you have to watch an ad, when you want to load a game you watch an ad, you’re watching just as many ads as you are playing the actual game. Ruined completely by this. In between everything you do you have to watch 1-2 ads. This is a bit much and way too ridiculous. I love the games.. but now I’m just going to pirate them. I’m not dealing with the amount of ads you guys force people to watch into buying the game. Piratings happening a lot with these and losing money now for you. Thanks Sega

You guys really made us disappointed with this one. there is real big problem, people download your games because of brand name when I downloaded this game it was free as soon as I opened game it asked for $1.99 for ad removal like really you guys should put that in disclaimer here before people should download it. Nonetheless, poor graphics in the game makes my experience sour screen which is not even half of my iPhone X is a bitter pill to swallow. If am downloading something from a good brand like SEGA at least people and I should expect more than this also for now I am uninstalling the game and will check for updates in future for better results. Thank you.

I love how after seven years, Fuze54’s review still holds true. I bought the first one and was highly dissatisfied with the quality of sound and frame rate, I still played it though because I was sure “they’d fix the mistakes by the sequel’s release”. How wrong I was, it literally sounds worse than the first one somehow. I didn’t even get past the character selection screen without closing the game, because what’s the point of even playing Streets of Rage 2 if the music’s already ruined? Please Sega, I was rooting for you when Sega Forever was first announced, but I’m starting to waver as I see it progressing. I’m sensing a strong sense of passion among you guys, a passion stronger than almost all other major video game companies, but a lack of initiative. Basically please don’t be indolent and portray that strong passion I know you have through your productions. Thanks. :)

Presentation is well done. Everything is as you’ll remember from the console versions. I remember playing the previous iteration of this before Sega deleted it from the marketplace. The controls were much tighter.

No less than 10 times the pause menu was activated by accident. I believe this is a design error, as the virtual “D-pad” is situated so close to the bottom of the screen that frequently pressing it will cause you to accidentally swipe up.

This alone ruined the experience for me, as I quit after the 2nd stage.

I grew up in the glory days of 16-bit gaming and seeing this game in StreetsofRage2Classic Store brought back a lot of great memories. I absolutely loved the co-op gameplay to which my brother and I put countless hours into playing on the Genesis. We got the Sega Genesis Classics for the PS4 to relive the gaming moments of our childhood but, to our dismay, the lag when playing online was just unbearable. I was hoping the mobile version’s online co-op would be better than the console’s. Unfortunately, to play co-op, the other person needs to be on the same wi-fi network. My brother and I live a few states apart so re-living our childhood gaming sessions won’t happen anytime soon. Please, please, please change this aspect of co-op. Aside from that everything else about this mobile version is great.

These Sega Forever games are fairly well-executed emulations of the Genesis/MegaDrive originals. If you’ve got a controller and a yen to play some Streets of Rage 2, this will do fine. That said, if you decide to invest the dollar or whatever to remove ads from StreetsofRage2Classic , be advised that the cloud save function (and therefore ALL save states, as there are no offline saves) has been broken in the transition to iOS/iPadOS 15.

According to the correspondence I’ve received from Sega as part of the bug report I submitted in regards to this issue, they are aware of the issue and are investigating the cause, but a timeframe for a fix has not been made available.

If you are okay doing without save states (remember, most of the games under the Sega Forever banner didn’t have save functionality in their original releases at all!), there’s nothing else wrong with this release of SoR2. It’s a classic, and I’ll love it until I’m dead. Even that might not stop me playing it.

What i love:
I love Streets of Rage 2 and being able to play it on mobile on the goal is amazing too. It has controller support so i am able to use my ps4 controller to play it and just but a controller stand for the phone so my controller can hold my phone while i play. The game runs smooth with not problem

Suggestions
- the only way to play 2 player mode is through wifi. The iphone is able to have more than one controller connected and many games have more than on controller support so i feel that they should add that feature here.
- i play on an iphone 11 and i would like it if they had an option to stretch out the screen a little bit more. I like my games just a bit more bigger than the screen size availble.

I think this game used to be known as renegade in the late 1980’s. Either way this game is my throwback to where arcade games used to be for us kids of the 1980’s . We would play this game at the local corner store (7-11 type) and after we had our fill, we would go outside the store on the way home and do these kick & punch moves on each other till we got home. Thanks for the way back memories today after finding your game.

The only issue is that I can only save once before the game glitches and no longer lets me save. Which can be annoying because certain bosses can be really difficult. This goes for the rewind button also. If you don’t need to save then this game is a masterpiece. It’s actually pretty good with a PS4 controller also.

This game is an absolute blast. With accurate mame behavior and awesome music/sound effect. Although this game is much more enjoyable with a controller. Since Apple supports Xbox wireless controllers; it’s highly recommended to play this game with a controller. I’m saying this from my own experience! You won’t be disappointed.
Although, ad system is a bit annoying. You willing to pay for it, I guess this wouldn’t be a problem anymore.

I still remember when this game came out in the 1990’s. Street fighter 2 was huge in the arcades, and the brawler/fighting genre was booming! While this game wasn’t graphically as beautiful as Street Fighter, it was definitely a quality game in all respects. The graphics, controls, characters, music were all great! I’m actually still in awe at home great the entire soundtrack is, and the gameplay is just as fun as it used to be.

*Interesting fact: Final Fight, from Capcom was only available on Super Nintendo, and not released for Sega genesis. The SNES version was great, but didn’t include “GUY” as a playable character, and was only a one player game. The 2 player ability of streets of rage two was definitely exciting at the time. This was a great game to play with friends.

*Also, please re-release more games. I think Sega classics got COVID-19 in 2020, as no new classic games were released.

This is my favorite game of all time. When I was little I used to get super excited when my dad would let me play it, a few years ago I went as far as to buy a sega genesis just so I could play this game, fast forward a few more years and I got gifted the anniversary mini console with all the games and it didn’t have this one but thankfully I already owned a hard copy. Needless to say, really happy to have it once more on my iPad for on the go happiness. Please bring SHINOBI III to the platform as well.

With my brother we played this game on the sega genesis and we would play every day 10 years ago we did a long time playing this again is awesome unlike me paying 5 bucks on the 3ds version in 2020 this is much better this the offline game I can play for hours the stages and music brings me back them times so I love playing it and is realy good tho it might never be like playing it at that time on that console still good and fun

This game was & still is one of the best games I’ve ever played. It made me a fan for Beat Em Ups. I was wondering what new game to download & thought it would be dope if there was a mobile version of Streets of Rage. Then boom! Both SoR 1 & 2 were both available for download since forever lol. My only issue after playing is the controls. They don’t feel as responsive as they should even after adjusting the size & their location which can get in the way of enjoying the game to it’s fullest potential. Besides that, nothing I could love more than Raging while I’m on the move

I love this game because me and my cousin play it all the time and the characters are pretty cool it’s 80s which I really like and well there is a kind of a bad part that you can pick up a nice pose but the funny thing is is that like the graphics are kind of old so they can’t really there’s no blood so it’s pretty cool overall and I will that’s why I would read it five stars and you get to choose from lots and lots of characters a couple like five maybe and there’s some pretty cool cool stuff and it has its own stars to see like drum speed and stuff like that anyways that is the best game that I could probably ever plan my life so that’s why I feel about it

Has and will always be one of my favorite games of all time to pick up to play. Works great with the controller so picking up putting down is what I love about this game on the phone. Haven’t really run into the save state problem because I can beat it in one sitting but it wouldn’t be that big of a problem to me.

The game is amazing and very nostalgic, but there is a few bugs. First when I open the game sometimes it just crashes, not a big deal but pretty annoying. Also the save game is bugged, when I save the game it usually doesn't actually save. Other than those two bugs the game is great. :)

I bought StreetsofRage2Classic when it first debuted and the sound and music were subpar at best. Now that it’s reintroduced, the sound and music are 100% better. While I wasn’t fond of having to pay another $2.11 for it to get rid of the ads, I don’t mind supporting them if they’re working on improving the games and getting more titles onto iOS.

I remember playing this game as a child and absolutely loved it thought it was very hard and I know you’re playing is super fun definitely into the retro old Sega games. This is a really fun game. I like that you can save your progress and it’s just like the original.

I really enjoy playing this game on my phone it is ‘Textbook’ right back down memory lane when I used to play this on the console. Y’all got me wanting to go find a Sega Genesis and wanting to buy all of the old games I used to enjoy 😁

I seriously Appreciate your development team for making this happen.

Although, I will say there is a bit of a learning curve with the controls but I think you have all done a great job given the fact that it ‘is a mobile game’ so you had to make the controls work ‘Somehow’ 😌

It’s All Good, well that’s my Review, I’m going to go back to Playing😁

Have a Nice, blessed day every one to anyone reading!

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